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From: Marcus Bales <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: FW: any formalists in the crowd? -- thanks to Annie Finch!
>But the notion of lineation requires a definition of "line" that can be
applied with few exceptions.
Not at all. Negative capability, dear boy.
>How do you distinguish a line of an address
from a line of a poem, for example, or a line of dialog, or a pickup line?
Not a question that need bother the writer of poems
>It seems as if nearly everyone who's replied on this list really thinks of
"poetry" as an honorific
Actually, I think no one has. You have said they are and then refuted it. In
fact, you take quite a few lines to refute it again. Answering only for
myself, I say that if I seem unmoved by your refutation it is because I do
not use "poetry" as an honorific
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